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Trainer’s Tip: Your Room Set Up Can Make or Break the Learning Experience

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I’ve spent a lot of time trying to understand how the feng shui of a classroom impacts learning. Circles without tables, just chairs helps promote group discussion. That’s why I always enjoy teaching in flexible classroom spaces. If you are trying to do an interactive lecture, it stops group interaction.

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Trainer’s Notebook: The Importance of Hands-On Learning

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For the past five years, I’ve been an adjunct professor at Middlebury College in Monterey teaching a graduate course called “ Networked International Organizations ” for students pursuing an advanced degree in International Development. That’s why I always enjoy teaching in flexible classroom spaces.

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From Community Arts To Community of Online Learners: Janet Salmons, Ph.D

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I figured out that I could offer teaching, training, consulting activities online. Since then, I've incorporated as Vision2Lead and started teaching online for Capella University. whether the collaboration is across sectors, disciplines and organizations, or within a given organization, with participatory decision-making and teamwork.

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

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Urban Sprouts School Gardens - a program that teaches youth to plan, grow, and eat vegetables from a school garden. Do this before before a classroom blogging project or external organizational blog which is more visible. For teaching and learning. Eating Fabulous Step 2: Thinking Outloud. Fundraising presentations.

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[VIDEO] Power Of Community In Strategic Planning

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So then we’ll talk about what are some participatory planning methods. I could practically teaching this class. That way, we were able to take the kids directly from the classroom and walk them down to the clinic to make sure we have 100% of students actually able to get to their mental health appointment.

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How False Conviction Could Help Science Centers Be More Human

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My hope is that we can find a way to get it into the science and humanities classrooms in colleges and universities, and I am working on that. Can we re-integrate deeper feelings, more humanity, into how we approach thinking and teaching about science? I like that, though I know that libertarians will find a lot to appreciate as well.

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